• Learning All About Haiku
• Installing Haiku Within VirtualBox
• Developer Sites And Documents
• Your First Haiku Build
• Things To Look Into
• Your First Haiku Application
• Class Hierarchy
• VirtualBox Mouse Driver

• Official Haiku web site
• Download Haiku Release 1 Alpha 1
  1. scroll about halfway down the page and grab the haiku-r1alpha1-iso.zip.torrent
• IRC channels: #haiku and #haiku-dev

• you must select the E1000 network adapter in VirtualBox if you want Haiku to detect your network card

• Trac, the project managment and bug/issue tracking system
• Haiku Coding Guidelines
• The Getting Started Guide was of relatively little use, but it does link to all the other necessary documents that provide critical information
• Haiku HIG
• Haiku icons

• Assumptions:
  1. You must have Haiku R1/A1 from September 14 2009 up and running already
• Getting the source code:
  1. click on the blue feather in top right, and select Applications->Terminal
  2. type: cd ~/
  3. type: svn checkout http://svn.haiku-os.org/haiku/haiku/trunk haiku/trunk
  1. more details on svn checkout: http://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/get-source
  2. more details on source tree layout: http://www.haiku-os.org/documents/dev/a_brief_introduction_to_our_source_repository_layout
  3. before the repository location was moved on 2009-Oct-04, the old command would have been: svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/haiku/haiku/trunk haiku/trunk
  4. type: cd ~/haiku/trunk
  5. type: dir
     1. note the general directory layout -- in particular, note the src directory
• Preparing the source tree (you only have to do this once):
  1. type: cd ~/haiku/trunk
  2. type: ./configure
• Building the source tree:
  1. type: cd ~/haiku/trunk
  2. type: jam -q haiku-cd
     1. running this command on my system with 4 virtual CPUs in VirtualBox v3.0.6 to match the 4 physical CPUs took exactly the same amount of time (136 minutes) whether or not I ran jam -j -q haiku-cd or jam -q haiku-cd
  3. type: dir generated/haiku-cd.iso
     1. .iso should be about 116M in size
     2. copy it to your host, shutdown Haiku, and reboot with this .iso; install it
     3. when you reboot haiku after the installation, click on Deskbar -> About This System to confirm the version number

• Sisong IDE
• Daiku IDE
• HIDE
• Paladin (IDE)
  1. download Paladin 1.1.0 from BeBits
  3. save to the file Paladin1.1.0.pkg.zip to the desktop
  4. double-click to expand the file to Paladin1.1.0.pkg
  5. double-click the .pkg file to install it
  6. open up the Haiku drive icon and navigate to /boot/apps/Paladin
  7. right-mouse-click on the Paladin executable and select Create Link -> Desktop
• NUIE (IDE)

• Refer to The Be Book for API information
  1. Note that this "book" is for BeOS R5, so the API is slightly out of date in some places
  2. In particular, ensure you read the following:
     • The Application Kit -> BApplication
     • The Interface Kit -> BWindow
• The Be/Haiku API is in a library named "be", so you'll need to link against it: g++ HelloWorld.cpp -lbe

• I started working on an application to parse the .h files and produce a GraphViz diagram showing class inheritance; it is still a work-in-progress, but here are the results

• the following are notes only, as I don't yet know what is necessary for getting the mouse driver working:
• in VirtualBox, click on Devices -> Install Guest Additions, or download the .iso
• copy the guest additions file onto the hard drive and extract the contents:
  1. mkdir vb
  2. cd vb
  3. cp /VBOXADDITIONS_3.0.6_52128/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run .
  4. chmod a+x VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
  5. ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run --noexec --keep
• download the entire VirtualBox source tree:
  1. svn co http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk vbox
  2. see files such as vbox/src/VBox/Additions/x11/vboxmouse/*
• Michael Thayer at Sun.com answered my questions about where to get started